David Feil-Seifer (File-Cypher) Graduate Student Interaction Lab Computer Science Department University of Southern California 941 West 37th Place, SAL 300 Los Angeles CA 90089-0781 Email: dfseifer(at)usc(dot)edu Phone: (213) 740-6245

Research & Projects

My PhD research is in the area of socially assistive robotics. My current focus is designing a robot architecture for inspiring and encouraging social behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

I'm also working with Maja Matarić and Nathan Koenig on The Robotics Primer Workbook. Designed for use in pre-university and university courses on robotics, this workbook is designed to compliment The Robotics Primer by Maja Matarić. This work was done in participation with iRobot and Microsoft Robotics.

I have helped to develop the lab curriculum for the new freshman course ENGR 499 (now ENGR 150) Engineering Science and Systems: From Humans to Robots.

The lab's greeter robot is in active development. I am currently mentoring students who are working on the navigation and interaction components for giving a tour of the lab.